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111. Photo 61/1(111)

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Photo 61/1(111)
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No. 111. Rangoon. Side view of East Tazoung [Shwe Dagon Pagoda]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the tazoung or devotional chapel, a square open-sided wooden pavilion with tiered roof. With lion statues in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'The base of the Pagoda is ornamented by brickwork lions, having altars for offerings before ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

112. Photo 61/1(112)

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Photo 61/1(112)
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No. 112. Rangoon. Henzas on the East side of the [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of henza posts set among small pagodas in the Shwe Dagon. Letterpress continues: 'These, painted in bright colours diapered with gold and silver (traces of which still remain) must have had a very gay appearance. Henza staves are attached to all pag...
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Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
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1 item

113. Photo 61/1(113)

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Photo 61/1(113)
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No. 113. Rangoon. Great Bell of the [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Landscape Photography The bell, in an open-sided pavilion, stands beneath a large tree. Subjects = religion; religion (Buddhism); religious articles; religious articles (Buddhist); temple bells Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
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1 item

114. Photo 61/1(114)

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Photo 61/1(114)
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No. 114. Rangoon. The Votive Tree. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Landscape Photography Offerings hanging from the tree, probably in the precincts of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Letterpress continues: 'Offering of muslin are suspended from this in honor of Gautama; some even have prayers written on them in the idea that every breeze would waft their petitio...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

115. Photo 61/1(115)

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Photo 61/1(115)
Title:
No. 115. Rangoon. Rear View of the [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Pagoda (covered in scaffolding), with smaller pagodas in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'Taken from the N.W. corner of the platform. The scaffolding of bamboo, so much like basketwork, was put up by the Burmese to enable them to regil...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

116. Photo 61/1(116)

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Photo 61/1(116)
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No. 116. Rangoon. Small Pagoda [on platform of Shwe Dagon]. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography Generally view of one of the ancillary pagodas of the Shwe Dagon. Letterpress continues: 'On the platform of the Shwe Dagon. There were numbers around the great Pagoda similar to this, which have been destroyed'. Subjects = Burmese architecture; Burmese archit...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

117. Photo 61/1(117)

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Photo 61/1(117)
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No. 117. Rangoon. Portico of the West Entrance of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of covered entrance. Letterpress continues: 'This is the landing of the west stairs opposite to the Tazoung on that side'. Subjects = architectural elements; Burmese architecture; Burmese architecture (Buddhist); gateways; pagodas; temples Locat...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

118. Photo 61/1(118)

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Photo 61/1(118)
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No. 118. Rangoon. Natural Bridge. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Landscape Photography Letterpress continues: 'A fallen tree over Tiger Alley near the American Mission at Kemindine'. Tiger Alley was one of the roads leading out of Rangoon to the north. Subjects = bridges Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

119. Photo 61/1(119)

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Photo 61/1(119)
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No. 119. Rangoon. Mission House at Kemindine. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of a two-storey verandahed house, with a hipped roof of thatch. Letterpress continues: 'The style of dwelling adopted by Europeans in Burmah'. Subjects = British colonial architecture; bungalows; mission houses; missionaries; private houses Loca...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item

120. Photo 61/1(120)

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Photo 61/1(120)
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No. 120. Rangoon. Tiger Alley. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
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Genre: Landscape Photography Pathway through forest. Letterpress continues: 'A beautiful ravine near Kemindine'. The Kemendine district is in the west part of Rangoon. Subjects = Location = Burma; Myanmar; Rangoon; Rangoon Division
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 item